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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Trupanea femoralis
Species
Trupanea femoralis
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon
("Acalyptratae")
Superfamily
Tephritoidea
Family
Tephritidae (Fruit Flies)
Subfamily
Tephritinae
Tribe
Tephritini
No Taxon
(Tephritis group)
Genus
Trupanea
Species
femoralis
(Trupanea femoralis)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Trupanea occidentalis
Adams, 1904
Explanation of Names
Trupanea femoralis
(Thomson, 1869)
Range
Western USA, but rarely recorded outside of California
(
1
)
Life Cycle
Reared from many genera of Asteraceae
(
1
)
Works Cited
1.
Handbook of the Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of America North of Mexico
Richard H. Foote, P. L. Blanc, Allen L. Norrbom. 1993. Cornell University Press (Comstock Publishing).
Contributed by
Martin Hauser
on 25 October, 2009 - 4:59pm
Additional contributions by
Vox Sciurorum
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Spencer_pote
Last updated 10 July, 2020 - 3:24pm